Wellington

Whole Foods Florida Hosting Best Butcher and Fishmonger Face-Off

We're not sure if you've heard, but butchering is kind of a big deal right now. Across the country butchers are teaching novices how to properly handle a nice piece of meat. We prefer watching the professionals to getting our hands dirty. There's just something about watching a man--or woman--worki ... More >>

Best Business Promotion Ever? "Just The Tip Tuesdays" With the Delivery Dudes

"That'll be $13.73, ma'am.""No delivery fee?""No, ma'am. It's Tuesday. Just the tip.""What a gentleman."The good thing about a "just the tip" joke is that it's safe (pun intended). If you get the joke, you're probably not offended by it. If you are the type of person who would be offended by it, you ... More >>

"Bacon Happy Hour" at The Gypsy's Horse in Wellington

Nothing beats bacon. And we're pretty sure that means nothing beats a bacon happy hour, either.It seems the staff at The Gypsy's Horse Irish Pub in Wellington think so, too. After all, they're claiming to be the first and only South Florida establishment to implement a free "bacon happy hour."See Al ... More >>

South Florida Food and Drink Events This Week: New Year's Eve and More

How will you spend the last day of 2012 and the first week of 2013? Clean Plate Charlie has rounded up a few food- and drink-related options to consider this week, most of which center around New Year festivities (go figure). Find some celebratory options after the jump. See Also: - Chef Meghan O' ... More >>

President Obama to Hold Free Campaign Visit in West Palm Beach on Sunday

President Obama is scheduled to hit up West Palm during a campaign stop this Sunday. FOR FREE. Aw, yeah. The POTUS will be speaking at the Palm Beach County Convention Center at 650 W. Okeechobee Blvd. and is inviting everyone to come along, but tickets are required. Maybe he'll talk more about ... More >>

Palm Beach Schools Closed On Tuesday

Looks like Isaac did enough damage that Palm Beach schools will be closed tomorrow too. As we pointed out earlier, the Palm Beach County school board was all, "School's open on Monday, everybody!" all the way up til 1 a.m. this morning before they realized Isaac went all Daniel-Day Lewis on that gu ... More >>

Amy Fisher Is Coming: Is She the Worst "Celebrity" Ever?

Amy Fisher Moving to Florida: Five Facts About Palm Beach's Newest Pile of Human Trash

South Florida is littered with washed-up celebrities, from Vanilla Ice to Donald Trump. And while it's easy to riff on these past-their-prime peddlers of spectacle, they at least possess a modicum of some redeeming quality. In other words, they're not total failures. But the newest edition ... More >>

Chris and Jeff George's Pill Mill Operation: Your Pulp Reader

If you've been reading here for a while, you remember former New Times writer Tom Francis, who has since moved on to more mysterious plans elsewhere in the country. Whatever he's been up to, it's involved rooting around in the court records of Chris and Jeff George, the Wellington twins who are ... More >>

Two 23-Year-Olds Die in Wellington Wrecks

​UPDATE, 3:41 p.m.: The original post had incorrect information about the first crash. It's been fixed, and comment from the PBSO has been added.Two 23-year-old men were killed in Wellington less than 12 hours apart, according to police.The first happened at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday -- James Duemi ... More >>

Breaking: John Goodman Guilty on All Counts (UPDATED)

​A Palm Beach County jury this afternoon found Wellington polo mogul John Goodman guilty of DUI manslaughter, failure to render aid, and vehicular homicide. The conviction comes two years after Goodman sped through a stop sign in Wellington, causing a car crash that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson ... More >>

John Goodman Trial: Some Reading Material While You Wait for the Verdict

​The jury in the murder trial of Wellington polo mogul John Goodman began deliberations earlier today. There's no telling how long it will take them to decide whether Goodman is guilty of vehicular homicide and DUI manslaughter in connection with the car accident that killed Scott Wilson two ... More >>

Opening Statements in John Goodman Trial Raise Important Questions About Getting Drunk

​Drinking games. They're superfun until you're sitting in a courtroom on trial for DUI manslaughter, trying to explain why you blew through a stop sign, slammed into another car with such force that it flipped into a drainage ditch, and left the driver to drown.But Wellington polo mogul John Goodm ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh's Defense Attorney, Roy Black, Hosts Fundraiser for Patrick Murphy

What would the 99 percent say about this?​Memo to Patrick Murphy: If you want to win street cred with the 99 percent, don't have Rush Limbaugh's lawyer host your fundraiser.Murphy, the Democratic congressional candidate hoping to unseat U.S. Rep. Allen West, has opened himself up to a lot of bad j ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: No. 40 -- Chivito From Cilantro's

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 40: Chivito From Cilantro'sCalling the chivito a mere sandwich is like ca ... More >>

Woman Bashes Husband With Remote Control: Charged With "Battery With a Deadly Weapon."

A would-be killer?​Massive props to to Cynthia Roldan, of the Palm Beach Post, for her courageous stoicism in the face of hilarity. Today, she straight-facedly reported the sad story of Rita Sharon Counts, a Wellington woman arrested Tuesday for assaulting her husband.Wait -- is that not funny? No ... More >>

Is Polo Mogul John Goodman Hiding His Vast Wealth?

PBSOHow much dough does Goodman really have?​Riches generated by his father's global heating and air- conditioning company have allowed John Goodman to live a luxurious life. He built a topnotch polo team, bought a 79-acre estate in Wellington, and founded the celebrity-studded International Polo ... More >>

Inside the Smart for Life Baking Facility

Photo by Devin DesjarlaisDr. Sasson Moulavi​​Ever wonder what it smells like standing outside of a diet-food-product facility? Right, neither did I. Until I was invited to take a tour of one. I figured it would probably smell a lot like plastic with a bit of money scent and a whiff of sadness. A ... More >>

Tropical Storm -- or Hater -- Demolishes "Goodman" Sign Near Scott Wilson Crash Site

Lisa GartnerThis campaign sign was felled on Friday afternoon.​When Mother Nature swept into town yesterday, she made a statement: The big, block-lettered "Goodman" sign -- three miles down Lake Worth Road from where polo mogul John Goodman crashed into and killed Scott Wilson --&nb ... More >>

For Polo Mogul John Goodman, Other Celebrity DUI Cases Offer Hope of Minimal Punishment

Facebook.comScott Wilson, 23, drowned in a canal after Goodman's Bentley crashed into his car.​As polo mogul John Goodman faces vehicular homicide and DUI manslaughter charges for the Wellington car accident that led to the death of 23-year-old Scott Wilson, many wonder if he'll receive special le ... More >>

Weeks After Fatal Crash, John Goodman Attended Lakers Game in Miami

Flickr user: Paolo CameraGoodman and his polo pals had a night out in Miami.​After allegedly causing a fatal, drunken car crash in February that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson, polo mogul John Goodman disappeared from Wellington for awhile.For three months, the multimillionaire founder of the Int ... More >>

Miami Man's Badass Tattoo Foretells Arrest for Murder

Photo: Broward Sheriff's OfficeJovon Gibson​"God Can Judge Me," says the tattoo on Jovon Gibson's neck, but it looks like a Broward County judge will get the first crack. The 22-year-old from Miami has been arrested for the murder of Richard Burke, 48, of Wellington, last April.The Broward Sheriff ... More >>

Was John Goodman Using Cocaine the Night Before Fatal Crash?

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeWhere was Goodman headed when he crashed?​There's been plenty of speculation about where Wellington polo mogul John Goodman was headed the morning of the fatal car accident that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson.The night of February 11, multimillionaire Goodman was ... More >>

Warren Newell Released to Local Halfway House, Looking for Honest-ish Work

Newell's official county commissioner headshotLook out, workforce. He's back.​Warren Newell has made yet another awful, awful mistake.First, the former Palm Beach County commissioner pocketed half a million dollars in secret land deals. That's a no-no. In 2007, he pleaded guilty, earning himself f ... More >>

Suit: Polo Owner Was Falling Down Drunk Night of Fatal Crash

Lisa RabFlowers mark the site of the crash where Scott Wilson died.​John Goodman, the multimillionaire owner of the International Polo Club Palm Beach, was so drunk the night of a fatal car crash this February that he "fell down for no apparent reason,"  according to a lawsuit filed in Palm B ... More >>

Vanilla Ice's New Venture: Condos for Car Junkies

​When we last left Wellington resident Rob Van Winkle, he was jumping a motorcycle over a monster truck filled with drunken fans. Now the man known to the world as Vanilla Ice is embarking on a quintessential South Florida venture: real estate. Always a lover of vintage cars -- he owns the '67 Cad ... More >>

Morning Juice: Belle Glade Guards Snared in Federal Sting; Rothstein Partners Feeling Heat

​Here's what's happening in Broward and Palm Beach:It appears that yet another group of public employees walked right into a federal sting. This time, the suits were back in Palm Beach County, where the U.S. Attorney's office revealed that state corrections officers in Belle Glade agreed to transp ... More >>

Why Cops Said Robert Tomlin's Shooting Death Was Justified

Flickr user: kevitivityTomlin was armed when he entered Miller's home.​In their investigation of the fatal shooting of Robert Rashard Tomlin last year, Palm Beach County sheriff's detectives made a clear distinction from the start. Yes, this was a homicide. Tomlin, 22, was shot by Heath Miller, a ... More >>

There's No Cutting Back at Jason's Deli

Photo by Riki Altman​It really sucks to have to scrimp and save. Let's face it -- the economy has made all of us cut back on our regular indulgences, and at least what I'm finding is that even when we don't aim to get less, we do anyhow. The same dishes I'm used to ordering now don't come with any ... More >>

Morning Juice: Newly Released Evidence Adds to Intrigue to Two Unsolved Murder Cases

​The news in Broward and Palm Beach this Tuesday:Police in Rye Brook, New York, say that an anonymous letter they received in July contains details of the Ben Novack murder case that, during the subsequent investigation, have proven accurate. Among the claims: that the death of Novack's mother in ... More >>

The Year of the Ponzi

Scott Rothstein is allegedly South Florida'a latest Ponzi king.​In 1921, Charles Ponzi began duping New Englanders with a bogus postage stamp investment scheme. He told them that by buying and selling foreign stamps -- yes, stamps --  they could see 40 percent returns. Instead, he simply took ... More >>

Five Things Lou Dobbs Will Do With His Time In Florida

flickr.comCNN's loss is probably NOT Florida's gain.​This week Lou Dobbs the last of the original CNN anchors, announced he was leaving the station and ending his show on that network to "go beyond the role here at CNN" and "engage in constructive problem solving."While this could mean many things ... More >>

Wellington Man Predicts Windfall That Will Save His Investors -- and Himself -- From Ruin

photo: rondavisfilmmaker.comZada on the cover of Riches to Rags, a documentary by Ron Davis, who claims to be a victim.​Joe Zada, the alleged fraudster who owned a home in Wellington and a patron of that town's equestrian scene, told a Detroit newspaper that he expects to receive an enormous payme ... More >>

Soul Food for Potential Soul Mate at Tom Jenkins' Bar-B-Q

Photo by Flickr user Marshall Astor Food PornographerBarbecue: the perfect date tester.When it comes to both dating and dining, I generally try to keep an open mind. But there are some tenets I stick to like paper on a slightly melted Blow Pop.With regards to dating, I stay away from guys still marr ... More >>

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